40 .. Mr. Leacu’s Essay on the Genus Meloe. 
Mr. Milne, of Surrey Place, first discovered this insect. near 
Margate, in Kent, and to his liberality the abovementioned col- 
lections are indebted for their specimens. It is found in company 
with M. variegatus, from which insect it is however entirely 
distinct. | 
** Antenne filiformes, tenuiores, elongata. 
9. MELOF AUTUMNALIS. 
M. niger, capite thoraceque punctatis, elytris punctis erosis 
e ran 
| Tan. VI. Fig. Zz: 8. 
Oliv. Ins. no. 45. sp. 4. ow A 9. a-b. 
M. rugosus, corpore atro, elytris rugosis. 
Marsh. Ent. Brit. 483. 4. 
Long. Corp. 5 ad 9 lin. : | 
Habitat in Europa, in Anglia prope Margate i in Cantiä, vulga- 
tissimus, Syngenesiis victitans. 
Mus. Dom. Francillon, Hatchet, Hooker, Kirby, ios Mac- 
Leay, Leach, Marsham, Milne, Montagu, Sowerby. ~ 
DESCR. Carur subrugosum, nigrum, lined longitudinali im- 
pressum, sub lente punctis numerosis impressis sepe con- 
fluentibus notatum. Antenne capite quadruplo longiores, 
nigrze, subpilose. 
"TIuonax transversus niger, punctis confluentibus lineáque i im- 
pressus, postice marginatus emarginatusque. 
ErvrTRA nigra punctis inequalibus erosis sudiluentibos, inter- 
stitiis glabris nitidis. 
ABDOMEN atrum, glabrum, nitidum, subtus punctulatum. 
Pepes atri, glabri, nitidi. 
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